Players sitting across from each other are partners on the same team. Spades is a trick-based card game for 4 players. In general, the goal of each Hand of Spades is to predict or Bid on how many Tricks you will take during that hand. It is a partnership card game that, like Bridge, is descended from the old English game of Whist.
Spades is a trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s and became popular in the 1940s.
